Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:57:03 -0700 From: Craig Shaver <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards Message-ID: <379D583F.CCFCCA28@progroup.com> References: <199907270430.AAA53231@cs.rpi.edu>
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Bill Maniatty wrote:
>
> Hello There:
>
> I was looking to make an affordable, yet high performance home machine
> using a dual processor board. I want to be able to run the most recent
> stable release, and was going to get Intel based processors. I would
> like the processors to be fairly speedy, say 400-500 MHZ. Since I'm going
> to live with the system for quite a while, I might want it to be kind
> of fast (but not prohibitively expensive).
>
> I had the following questions:
> 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't buy?
> 2) A local vendor is pushing Soyo boards at a $239 which is below the $400+
> prices I have seen quoted for an AsusTek P2B-DS board. I assume they
> mean a SY-D6IBA or SY-D6IBA2. Anybody have any experiences with such
> a board?
>
I was going to try a system built around an ABIT BP6
Dual Socket 370 Processor ATX Mother-Board
. Ultra DMA66
. Intel 440BX AGPset
. 5 PCI / 2 ISA / 1 AGP Slots
. 3 x 168-pin Memory Slots up to 768Mb
Takes 2 Celery chips. The board can be had for under $140, and the
Celeries are around $100 each for the 400mhz ones.
My reasearch says this should be the best bang for the buck. No on
board anything, so you will have to go buy a few boards.
--
Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (650)390-0654
Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
http://www.progroup.com/
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